Infrastructure and Applications
PDRI-DevLab
University of Pennsylvania
October 30, 2024
Jeremy Springman
Research Assistant Professor
Erik Wibbels, Serkant Adiguzel, Mateo Villamizar Chaparro, Zung-Ru Lin, Donald Moratz, Diego Romero, Hanling Su, Mahda Soltani
Input: Online news
Data quality
Output: Monthly data
::: notes - most of our news comes from national sources - fundamental differences in the type of events covered by domestic and international sources :::
Countries where LN has zero local sources: 6/56
Comparing LN on other metrics:
Bangladesh: easiest case for automated scrapers
GDELT
Internet Archive
Task
Results
jrspringman.github.io